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The American Dialect Society chose “truthiness” as the word that best reflects 2005. In case your spellchecker chokes on the word like mine does, they define it as “the quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts.” Think: this blog. It won out over such other quintessentially 2005 words as podcast, whale tail, muffin top, and Cruisazy, which means to exhibit crazy behavior. And yes, that one’s named in honor of Tom the Couch Jumper.